Yang Xinhai was born on the 29th of July in 1968. As the son of a poor peasant family, he was the youngest child, strongly introverted and shy. He was creative and liked to paint. At school, he had to provide himself with food, which was always a challenge without money. At 17, he dropped out of school in order to join migrant workers. He worked in different places, depending on where work was offered, including coal mines.

At the age 20, he came for theft for the first time in the prison. He had to do fieldwork in Xi'an. Three years later in 1991, he was released. Yang Xinhai began to beg with several young people during the day and to steal during the night. In the same year he was arrested again, and again he had to work in the fields, this time in the province of Hebei. After he was released again in 1996, he was charged with attempted rape in the prison again, this time in the region Zhumadian. After three years, in 1999, he was again released from his five-year prison sentence .

The time of revenge begins

Yang Xinhai lost faith in the society. He has lost all social contacts including family and friends throughout the years being held in prison. His girl-friend from his hometown promised to wait for him when he comes back. However, when she learned of his imprisonment, she didn't want him anymore and married another man.

The monster inside Xinhai is waking up

Now Yang Xinhai made ​​a decision - the decision to kill. His murder victims were poor peasant families. He would approach their houses at night and surprise them. He killed with a hammer, a shovel or an axe - Yang Xinhai didn't care if there were men, women or children. He would kill the whole family without any survivors.

Arrest of Yang Xinhai

On the 3rd of November in 2003, Yang Xinhai was seen at a routinely police check, because he behaved erratically. At the police station, Yang Xinhai confessed of killing over 60 victims. He got blamed for 67 murders and 23 rapes. At the 1st of February 2004, Yang Xinhai was sentenced to death. Two weeks later, he was killed by a shot into the neck.